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Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after a third-party vendor hack

Security Affairs

In our commitment to full transparency, we wish to inform you of a recent security incident involving a third-party vendor managing employee attendance data. ph1ns told Bleeping Computer that Acer was hacked, but threat actors did not deploy any ransomware.

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Data Protection: Where’s the Brexit Privacy Dividend?

Data Protector

No longer might UK privacy pros feel obliged to wait for the publication of weirdly worded EDPB opinions. Enormous amounts of money have been spent in a belated acknowledgement of, in many cases, decades of under investment on privacy issues. The GDPR has had a profound impact on many organisations. Was such a fine really appropriate?

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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Related: How Multi Party Computation is disrupting encrypti on An accomplished violinist, Einstein, no doubt, appreciated the symmetry of his metaphor. Simply put, iO must be achieved in order to preserve privacy and security while tapping into the next generation of IT infrastructure.

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Indonesia Soon to Become the Fifth ASEAN Country to Adapt Data Privacy Laws

Security Affairs

Any data that can be identifiable on its own or combined with other information, both direct and indirect through electronic or non-electronic systems. He holds a degree of Computer Science from Iqra University and specializes in Information Security & Data Privacy. General personal data v.

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HHS Releases Guidance on Audio-Only Telehealth Practices

Hunton Privacy

Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) released guidance to help covered entities understand how they can use remote communication technologies for audio-only telehealth in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules (the “Guidance”).

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Cybersecurity, why a hotline number could be important?

Security Affairs

Statistics show a steady increase in cyber attacks targeting citizens and businesses, causing financial, security and privacy damage. Europe too, with the right planning and cooperation, could adopt this innovative solution to preserve digital security in an increasingly interconnected world.

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Podcast Episode 128: Do Security and Privacy have a Booth at CES?

The Security Ledger

In this episode of The Security Ledger podcast (#128): you're going to hear a lot from the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) out in Las Vegas this week, but are any of the new gadgets being released secure? And do security and privacy have a seat at the table at the world's largest electronics event?

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